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Lester Kurtz gives students the tools they need to understand religious life in today’s world, first by considering the manifold global interconnections among beliefs and believers (as well as among those who oppose them), and second by introducing students to the fundamentals of each of the world religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. As provocative as it is informative, this book will spark heated classroom discussion and careful reexamination of some of our conventional understandings about the role of religion in the modern and postmodern world.
About the Author
Lester R. Kurtz is professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin where he teaches comparative sociology of religion, peace and conflict, and both western and nonwestern social theory. He was previously director of Religious Studies at Texas and holds a Master’s in Religion from Yale Divinity School and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago. He is the editor of a 3-volume Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict (Academic/Elsevier), co-editor of Nonviolent Social Movements (Blackwell’s), and The Web of Violence (U. of Illinois Press). He is the author of numerous books and articles on religion and peace, including The Nuclear Cage (Prentice-Hall) and The Politics of Heresy (U. of California Press), which received the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion’s Distinguished Book Award. He is currently working on books on Gandhi’s Paradox and Gods and Bombs, as well as a documentary film, “Peaceful Warriors: The History of Nonviolence,” with James Otis. Dr. Kurtz is the past chair of the Peace and Justice Studies Association as well as the Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section of the American Sociological Association, which awarded him its Robin Williams Distinguished Career Award in 2005. He has lectured in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America and taught at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Delhi University in India, and Tunghai University in Taiwan.
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